All the time I was washing out the blockhouse, and then washing up the things from dinner, this disgust and envy kept growing stronger and stronger, till at last, being near a bread-bag, and no one then observing me, I took the first step toward my escapade and filled both pockets of my coat with biscuit.

In warm latitudes, the men, as I have mentioned before, generally take their meals on deck, and it was Jean's grand amusement, as well as business, to cruise along amongst the messes, poking her snout into every bread-bag, and very often she scalded her tongue in the soup-kids.

Taking my bread-bag with me as before, I went to work with renewed hope, and after long and severe labour -- severe on account of the crouching attitude I had to keep, as also from the pain caused by my wounded thumb -- I succeeded in detaching one of the end pieces from its place.